Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside By Chris BriggsEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 350 Pages | ISBN : 3319662082 | 6.49 MB

This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern economic growth.